1. Lupita Nyong O
Lupita Amondi Nyong’o was the child of to Peter and Dorothy Nyong’o and was raised in Kenya. Her father who was a senator worked as a visiting professor in political science in Mexico City, Mexico. She was sent to Mexico at the age of 16 to learn the language Spanish. She studied Film Studies at the Hampshire College, located in Massachusetts and graduated from the Yale School of Drama’s acting class.
She started her career in the production team for several films which include, Fernando Meirelles’s ‘The Constant Gardener’, Mira Nair’s ‘The Namesake’ and the director Salvatore Stabile’s ‘Where God Left His Shoes’. Her inspiration to take up professional acting as a career remains Ralph Fiennes, star of The Constant Gardener. The audience we...
2. Chris O Dowd
Chris O’Dowd is an Irish actor and comedian. He was born on 9th October 1979 in Sligo, Ireland to Sean, a graphic designer, and Denise, a counsellor, and psychotherapist. He grew up in Boyle, Country Roscommon. He was the youngest of five siblings. Later he would say that he was allowed to do many things his elder siblings weren’t allowed to do, and the pressure over him was relatively almost non-existent, which enabled him to explore and choose the career he did. Though he studied politics and sociology at University College Dublin, he didn’t obtain a degree owing to his lack of interest in sociology. He went on to attend the London Academy of Music and Art.
Chris O’Dowd truly wanted to be a serious actor but later realised the potential he had as a comic actor. His first film role was a mino...